It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.
The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
Evil must always be fought.
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.